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Fig. 1 | BMC Pulmonary Medicine

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From: Are there differences among operators in false-negative rates of endosonography with needle aspiration for mediastinal nodal staging of non-small cell lung cancer?

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Flow chart. Of 705 enrolled patients, 697 patients underwent definitive surgery with mediastinal dissection, and 8 patients underwent surgical staging before definitive surgery because they were suspected to have mediastinal metastasis even after confirmation of negative results of EBUS/EUS-NA. NSCLC, non-small cell lung cancer; EBUS/EUS-NA, endobronchial ultrasonography and esophageal ultrasonography with needle aspiration; LN, lymph node

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BMC Pulmonary Medicine

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